(transgresses, transgressing, transgressed)
If someone transgresses, they break a moral law or a rule of behaviour.
If a politician transgresses, that is not the fault of the media.
...a monk who had transgressed against the law of celibacy...
It seemed to me that he had transgressed the boundaries of good taste.
VERB: V, V against n, V n
• transgression (transgressions)
Tales of the candidate's alleged past transgressions have begun springing up.
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